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A bright side for the Dallas Mavericks? They aren’t the New York Knicks

We haven’t heard anything from Mark Cuban lately, but he’d be well within his rights to pipe up about what happened to the New York Knicks last week.

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Tyson Chandler (6) of the New York Knicks and Carmelo Anthony (7) react after a play against Indiana Pacers during Game Five of the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the 2013 NBA Playoffs at Madison Square Garden on May 16, 2013 in New York City.

A second-round knockout in the playoffs is not what they brought Tyson Chandler, Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire together for.

Their money for the future is shot. They will have a very hard time getting anybody to take Stoudemire off their hands and receive anything worthwhile in return. They have an old team already. And by the way, did we mention that they have no money to improve their talent level?

That is exactly the situation that Cuban wanted to avoid and was the basis of the decision to let Chandler go in what amounted to a sign and trade for nothing but cap space. That turned into Lamar Odom and we all know how that turned out.

But the point is that the Mavericks, while missing the playoffs this year, have financial freedom and the chance (just a chance, not a guarantee) to do something big. The Knicks have no such chance. They have their team and are going to be stuck with it for the forseeable future, barring somebody bailing them out with a silly trade.

Can you really see that New York team getting past Indy or Miami in the next year or two?

Neither can I.

This doesn’t exonerate Cuban and the Mavericks. They still have to get a payoff with all that money they have to throw around or it will remain a questionable basketball decision. But you can make the case that they are in far more favorable position right now than the Knicks.

For whatever that’s worth.

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